Factionalism in Parliamentary Parties in the Czech Republic: A Concept and Some Empirical Findings

Democratization

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 138-151

  Kopecký, Petr ^a  

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EID: 84885985203     PISSN: 13510347     EISSN: 1743890X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13510349508403420     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. See, for example, Geoffrey Pridham, ‘Political Parties, Parliaments and Democratic Consolidation in Southern Europe: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives’, in Ulrike Liebert and Maurizio Cotta (ed.), Parliament and Democratic Consolidation in Southern Europe: Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Turkey (London: Pinter, 1990), pp. 225-48.
2. Richard Rose, ‘Parties, Factions and Tendencies in Britain’, Political Studies, Vol.12, No.1(1964), pp. 33-46.
3. For a conceptual treatment of this problem see Peter Mair, ‘How, and Why, Newly-Emerging Party Systems May Differ From Established Party Systems’, paper presented for the conference on ‘Emergence of New Party Systems and Transitions to Democracy’, Bristol, Sept. 1993.
4. For an elaboration and/or overview of these hypotheses see Raphael Zariski, ‘Party Factions and Comparative Politics: Some Empirical Findings’
5. in Frank P. Belloni and Dennis C. Beller (eds.), Faction Politics: Political Parties and Factionalism in Comparative Perspective, (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio Press, 1978), pp. 19-38;
6. Klaus von Beyme, Political Parties in Western Democracies (Aldershot: Gower, 1985), pp. 224-32;
7. Giovanni Sartori, Parties and Party Systems: A Framework for Analysis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976), pp. 71-115;
8. David Hine, ‘Factionalism in West European Parties: A Framework for Analysis’, West European Politics, Vol.5, No.1 (1982), pp. 36-53.
9. On the distinction between internally created and externally created parties see Maurice Duverger, Political Parties: Their Organization and Activities in the Modern State (London: Methuen, 1954).
10. For the account of problems involved in OF see Judy Batt, East Central Europe from Reform to Transition (London: Pinter, 1991), pp. 54-64.
11. Hine, p. 48.
12. All electoral results reported here are from M. Gallagher, M. Laver, P. Mair, Representative Government in Modern Europe (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994).
13. The interview with Miroslav Macek, member of ODS party executive in daily Rude Právo, 22 Feb. 1994.